Abortion Pill Ban Challenged
March 23, 2023 | Wyoming
Supporters of abortion rights filed an updated lawsuit on Tuesday in order to prevent Wyoming’s new ban on abortion pills from taking effect.
Just days after Governor Mark Gordon (R-Wyo.) signed the first-ever express ban on abortion drugs in the country, a group planning to operate what would be the second facility in the state offering abortions filed the revised lawsuit. That ban would go into force on July 1st if there is no court intervention.
Supporters of abortion rights had sought to overturn a separate, comprehensive abortion ban that went into force in Wyoming on Sunday without the governor’s signature. This law aims to override the arguments that led a judge to temporarily suspend a prior prohibition.
According to the lawsuit, the prohibition on abortion pills and the general prohibition clash would provide ambiguity over what is and isn’t legal under the new legislation. (Excerpt from One America News.)
